Now, I am playing a lot of Noita (but I feel the controls are getting in the way, especially on lower levels…) and Transport Fever 2 (I do love me some Transport Tycoon nostalgia :P ).

I have played a lot of Civ6 which plays surprisingly well on Steam Deck.

Tons of great games on Steam Deck!

• Hollow Knight
• Noita
• Civilization VI
• Transport Fever 2
• Phoenix Point
• Subnautica
• Talos Principle
• Disco Elysium …

Go is the most amazing game I know. I often regret not sticking with it as a kid. And IRL games are wonderful. The feeling of the stones on fingertips, the rattle of prisoners, the clicks and clacks when placing stones on the goban…

We have a wider circle of friends who are boardgame enthusiasts, so we go through a rather lot of them. Some stick, some don’t. These we play regularly and have a lot of fun:

• Brass: Birmingham
• Codenames
• Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion
• 7 Wonders: Duel
• Race for the Galaxy

There are more that made an impression on me, I remember playing them a few times, but do not want to play them again (Do you know that feeling? :D ), eg. Eclipse (the galaxy-wide battle 4X preparation-takes-as-long-as-playing-and-playing-takes-a-whole-day strategy), Agricola, Mice and Mystics…